Quotes About Reality

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.